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Looks like Sean Preston and Jayden James are going to be down home for the holidays.
In a closed-door hearing Monday, attorneys for both Britney Spears and Kevin Federline appeared in court to hammer out custody arrangements of the Feder-tots for the upcoming month.
While details of the holly-jolly visitation schedule are scarce, what with attorneys for both sides having the commissioner boot all media from the courtroom, the boys will seemingly spend Christmas at Casas Spears and Federline, following a similar division of time for the Thanksgiving holiday.
"There was a proposal by Kevin that the holidays be shared in a certain fashion," Federline attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told People. "That was agreed to. That's the best for everyone involved."
Kaplan said that the deal was agreed to prior to entering the courtroom and that Federline "was pleased it was accomplished without really submitting it to the court."
"It's important for the kids to spend time with each of the parents--especially on special days. And that is Kevin's desire."
Kaplan did not go into detail as to how the former couple will divvy up custodial duties for the holiday.
On Thanksgiving, however, the one- and two-year-olds shared a brunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with their "Gimme More" mom at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills before getting handed off to Federline in the afternoon for a ****************** dinner.
Aside from the holiday handoff, Monday's hearing also dealt with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services' request for access to currently sealed documents from the custody case. The agency claims it needs said documents to complete a handful of open investigations involving the Spears-Federline offspring. The department is legally obliged to investigate any claims logged with the county.
A lawyer for the county requested department access to the redacted documents, though Spears attorney Anne Kiley fought the motion. Kiley claimed that allowing unrestricted access to the sensitive materials to the entire department, what she termed a "large bureaucracy with thousands of employees," would inevitably result in media leaks of the private information, something the court has fought very hard against.
Because the hearing was closed, it's unclear whether Court Commissioner Scott M. Gordon made a ruling on the request.
Barring any more emergency hearings, the next scheduled court date is set for Jan. 23.
In the meantime, while the ruling is still out on a custody deal, at least one entity has recognized Federline as the banner parent he's somewhat surprisingly turned out to be.
The 29-year-old came in at a respectable number seven on Details magazine's list of the 50 Most Influential Men Under 45, also managing to nab cover boy honors for the issue. He shares his ranking with fellow high-profile papa Larry Birkhead, both of whom were honored as "Good Fathers."
"To be a father is...everything," Federline told the magazine. "It shows me how little I am."
The father of four said that his life, and particularly his choices in entertainment, fall completely under the jurisdiction of his kids, saying, "My TVs are pretty much G-rated right now. Anything from SpongeBob to Finding Nemo, and you know, I'm still trying to decide which one I like more."
Still, family-friendly programming aside, Federline said he would like to make more time to further his own acting career, which got a boost this year from appearances on One Tree Hill and CSI, albeit in roles a tad more typecast than he'd prefer, saying, "I'd actually like to play somebody other than a bad guy or an ***."
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